DTD Mini Festival: Final Day - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

After a swift opening day, we are back and ready for more fun-filled poker action. Here is your current line-up for day two of this DTD Mini Festival...

Christopher Bruce   88500
James Bishop   78300
Marc Goodwin   71100
Daniel Rudd   63300
James Reid   54700
Richard Stanley   50800
Richard Berridge   48300
Michael Mccool   47700
Jon Omara   45000
Jef Rogers   41500
Thomas Nightingale   41100
Steve Jelinek   39400
Andrew Greekfish   29200
Shahnawaz Randera   25200
Richard Sherwood   23400
Paul Lammas   21500
Michael Wernick    11700
Neil Giblin   9000

The other placings...

19    Ben Vinson
20    Joseph Grech
21    Thomas Carpenter
22    Richard Hawes
23    Gary Teatum
24    Karl Johnson
25    Martino Libertini
26    Steve Read
27    Zaheer Zeb
28    Frances Creed
29    Benjamin Carpenter
30    Alan Vinson
31    Conor Smyth
32    Alli Mallu
33    Daniel Jolowicz
34    Laurence Houghton
35    Daniel Longden
36    Ian Gwynne
37    Jeff Sharpe
38    Tuan Le
39    Bjørn Andre Hovden
40    Ian Mcdonald
41    Matt Tyler
42    Sidney Harris
43    Matthew Buckland
44    Alan Stearn
45    Trevor Pearson
46    Rory Campbell
47    David Smith
48    Paul Rayner
49    Matthew Wadham
50    Darren Foster
51    Josh Gould
52    James Akenhead
53    Peter Linton
54    James Dempsey
55    Philip Ashton
56    Peter Charalamobus
57    Bernard Gabriel
58    Richard Trigg
59    Trevor Reardon
60    Michael Mincher
61    Michael Lee
62    Andrew Johnson
63    Paul Jackson
64    Stian Johnsrud
65    Asy Ho
66    Nicky Evans
67    Anthony Phillips
68    Jonathan Lundy
69    Desmond Jonas
70    Andrew Tuxworth
71    Ben Callinan
72    Kyriacos Dionysiou
73    John Eames
74    Dean Sanders
75    Mohammed Shafiq
76    Keith Johnson
77    Albert Sapiano
78    Anthony Nicholls
79    Adam Wilkinson

And the wonga up for grabs...

1    -    £20,737
2    -    £12,442
3    -    £8,295
4    -    £5,332
5    -    £4,147
6    -    £2,962
7    -    £2,370
8    -    £1,777
9    -    £1,185

[danafish]

And there has been some very notable action already. Neil Giblin shoved for his last 9k utg and it folded all the way around to Mickey Wernick on the small blind, who also announced all in. Big blind Paul Lammas got out of the way, and they were on their proverbial backs.

Wernick:
Giblin:

Board:

"God that hurts," says Mickey. Oh dear.

Down to just 1500 while Mr Giblin enjoyed a double up to around 20k, Mickey wasted no time in getting his last few chips in. The next hand, Andy Greekfish raised to 3.5k and Mickey called all in. Turning their cards over, Micley was delighted to discover that he was in fairly good shape, holding to Greekfish's .

Flop: - "Oh ffs," says Greekfish cheerfully, but he has the flush draw.

Turn:

River:

Mr Mickey Wernick is therefore OUT before he's even finished his coffee and all you people who picked him to win are sadly most mistaken.

[danafish]

A pretty big pot between HWCBN and Richard Berridge. 50k was in the middle when they both checked the river of an A-T-x-A-K board. Berridge was holding pocket queens, but HWCBN paired is king on the river. Would have been good fun if it had been a queen instead of a king...

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It could be a short day, as we've lost yet another, Tom Nightingale quickly following the Legend Mickey Wernick out of the door. I joined the action on the flop, with the decision on blondeite Daniel Rudd. With a waiting patiently on the felt, it looked as though Daniel's leading bet of 4,000 had been reraised to 10,500 by Tom, leading Daniel to inquire, "How much you playing?" Moments later, Daniel was announcing all-in, and although he spent a minute in the think tank, Tom eventually called with . Daniel showed .

The turn and river were of no use, and Tom was next to hit the deck.

[danafish]

An enormous double up for Jon Omara.

He made it 2.5k preflop and was called by Jim Reid in the big blind.

Flop:

Reid checked, Omara bet 3.5k. Reid announced all in. With a bit of sighing but not that much actual hesitation, Omara called.

Reid:
Omara:

Turn and river: an entirely irrelevant and .

Mr Omara is up to around 70k and Jim Reid is rather shorter than that.

[snoopy1239]

Jim Reid is next to taste dust, reraising Marc Goodwin's initial raise of 4,000 all-in from the next seat along. Mr Cool quickly called with queens, whilst Jim could only muster an inferior ace jack.

The 9-9-Q-7-5 board was rather emphatic.

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For once, an all-in encounter leads to a double up rather than an exit. Like the quickfire of a machine gun, a rapid sequence events led to a showdown with Steve Jelinek raising to 4,000, Daniel Rudd making it circa 10,000, Steve announcing all-in and Daniel calling.

On their backs...

Rudd =

Jelinek =

"King right off the bat," observes the compere without compare, Simon Trumper...

Flop =

Turn =

River =

"Go on the Jelly," exclaimed Tony Phillips from the rail.

Rudd on 45k, Jelinek 100k.

[danafish]

Mr Andy Greekfish Andreou has been getting rather raise-happy. He raised from the button and everyone folded. Then he raised from the cutoff. "I know it looks bad 'cause I keep doing it so this time I'm going to show you my hand when you fold. If you fold." Everyone folds, and Mr Greekfish duly waves at the table.

[danafish]

A double up for the untypable Mr Shahnawaz Randera (henceforth to be known in speech as Mr Ctrl V). He found himself in a spot of bother, all in with against HWCBN's , but here comes the miracle flop:



Mr Randera now on around 65k.

[danafish]

Messrs Paul Lammas and Neil Giblin, seated next to each other, cradling around 15k and 13k respectively, seem to be taking it more or less in turns to shove their sad little stacks into the middle. Lammas did it twice with no callers. When Giblin tried it on next hand, Mr Greekfish considered it carefully from the big blind before announcing, "I think you're got a pair of sixes. I'm gonna fold." Giblin showed him 7-8 offsuit and giggled.

[snoopy1239]

Near table...

Seat 1: Jeff Rogers -- 27,000
Seat 2: Daniel Rudd -- 44,000
Seat 3: Richard Berridge -- 43,000
Seat 4: James Bishop -- 18,000
Seat 5: Shahnawaz Randera -- 75,000
Seat 6: HWCBN -- 44,000
Seat 7: Richard Stanley -- 49,000
Seat 8: Steve Jelinek -- 129,000

Far table...

Seat 1: Jon Omara -- 92,000
Seat 2: Paul Lammas -- 30,000
Seat 3: Neil Giblin -- 20,000
Seat 4: Chris Bruce -- 87,000
Seat 5: Marc Goodwin -- 85,000
Seat 6: Andrew Andreou -- 28,000

If you are on the ball, you'll have noticed that the far table is looking rather sparse in terms of players. One reason for this is the recent exit of blondeite Richard 'Forrester' Sherwood. Although he eventually fell at the hands of Neil Giblin when his failed to outgun on an ensuing board, the majority of his chips sailed into the welcoming hands of Paul Lammas.

With , Richard will have been relived to be coin flipping once Paul revealed , but after the dealer popped out a menacing , it was clear he would need to display the bullet dodging capabilities of Phil Hellmuth to survive. However, a clinical quickly dashed any hopes, followed by an academic river, to leave Richard with what Colchester Kev would refer to as a "bowel of rice".

[snoopy1239]

The player can't be named, but I can certainly give you the hand. All in with against the of James Bishop, HWCBN was in desperate need of finding one of three eights, of which duly arrived on the turn of a board to serve up a most welcome of double ups. To say Bishop didn't look happy would be an understatement.

[danafish]

And indeed the unlucky Mr Bishop has got unlucky again - this time leaving him OUT at the hands of Mr Steve "Chip Leader" Jelinek. All in preflop, Bishop's was looking most confident against Jelinek's , but oh, disaster:



James was a gentleman and offered a handshake rather than the Bishop's Finger that is my feeble attempt at punning after only a single cup of coffee; nevertheless, he is OUT.

Bishop's finger just out of shot:

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[danafish]

An enormous hand between Mr Richard Berridge (not as orange in real life as he appears below) and Mr Richard Stanley (for some reason I forgot to take a photo of him at all). With around 30k in the pot preflop, Berridge moved in for 28k on the flop, leaving Stanley, who only just covered him, with a decision. "If you fold, I'll show you the bluff," said Berridge, and Stanley mulled over what this meant for a few moments before folding A-K up. Berridge showed an un-bluffy pair of pocket jacks.

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[danafish]

Mr Daniel Rudd is OUT, so once again all those of you who picked him to win were alas entirely wrong. I only caught the end of the hand, which involved Rudd all in with and Marc Goodwin with , the board . I understand that Rudd had raised utg though, and Goodwin had called in the big blind...

[danafish]

Duh duh duh

Another one bites the dust.

And this time it is Mr Jef Rogers, in most enormously unfortunate circumstance. He was all in preflop with two callers, one of them Steve Jelinek, who contained his betting urge until the river of the board, forcing opponent number 2 to fold. Jelinek turned over for the flopped full house. Rogers showed pocket queens and made his exit.

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[danafish]

Mr Neil Giblin, whom Snoopy is calling Limescale as he is proving impossible to get rid of (I have told Snoopy about limescale removing products, but he doesn't believe me), has doubled up again. Jon Omara raised to 3k and then called Giblin's 14k all in. Giblin was ahead all the way.

Giblin:
Omara:

Board: quadalicious